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Originally Posted by cardboard adolescent
I agree, but one realization that scared me was that the system is only as complex as the complexity you read into it. People ask, so you're saying your mind could have generated Shakespeare and Beethoven? You are capable of such things? But their brilliance is only proportional to the brilliance your mind can read into their work, most of us just rely on other people to tell us that they were great which to a solipsist of course proves nothing.
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It does get kind of mirrorical (yes I made up a word). I made something complex and great and the reason why it is complex and great is because of criteria that other people made up meaning that I really made it up meaning that it is only great because I'm the only one there is.
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Originally Posted by Stu
If everything we perceive as reality is in fact a dream, then what are we?
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It.
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Originally Posted by Inuzuka Skysword
Irrational ideas are irrational. Why would I want to believe this?
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I suppose you wouldn't. Why would anyone believe it? The concept of questioning everything.